To help on this we could ask Gavin at 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1877 to put also this branch under 
RAT ?
http://ci.apache.org/projects/
http://ci.apache.org/projects/ofbiz/rat-output.txt

Jacques

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[email protected]>
I don't think we can distribute files like this:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/addbirt/framework/birt/webapp/birt/CancelTask.jsp

they are not licensed with the ASL2.0 and are not listed in the  LICENSE file.

Jacopo

On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:


On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:47 PM, David E Jones wrote:


Just keep in mind that if it goes into a specialpurpose component then "applications" components can't use it, meaning no embedded reports in the base applications.

It's a tool and IMO makes most sense in the framework if it's going  to be used 
in any standard way.

On a side note: I hope the license review has been thorough and includes ALL jar files needed by BIRT as this was an issue before with JasperReports and certain other things...


This is a good point, David: for example, the following files are a  bit 
confusing to me:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/addbirt/framework/birt/lib/platform/plugins/com.lowagie.itext_1.5.4.v20090305/about.html

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/addbirt/framework/birt/lib/platform/plugins/com.lowagie.itext_1.5.4.v20090305/about_files/

I am not sure if we can include them as they are or if we have to  move them to 
the OFBiz home folder.

Hans, as suggested by David, please carefully review the new jars so that we don't risk to commit files that cannot stay in our svn.

Jacopo


-David


On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Shi Yusen wrote:

This discussion should be on architect level, not function level.
Everybody likes Birt very much.

Personally I think it's a special purpose component and should
use/extend the BI interface.

The BI interface is a great part of v09.04, beside data mining, it  also
makes it easy to set up mappings to build report db (Birt for  example)
or create search index (Lucene for example) or etc.

My 2 cents,

Shi Yusen/Beijing Langhua Ltd.


在 2009-11-10二的 13:01 +0700,Hans Bakker写道:
Some general info about Birt.
-----------------------------

This function can be separated in a runtime part and a  development part
The runtime part we want to put in the framework so the reports  which
can be developed in Eclipse can be run in OFBiz as an ofbiz  report and
can be used in any component. We especially think about  the 'main'
pages where an overview can be given of that component in a  graphical
report.

This component allows the retrieval of data through the delegator,
dispatcher or directly from the database (several are supported)

more info can be found at: http://www.eclipse.org/birt/
and we have created some help screens in webtools to get started.


example report:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/examples/solution/TopSellingProducts.html


Concerning the BI component, yes it could make the reporting  there much
easier, however making use of the BI entities.

Of course there are many other reporting tools, but we think this  one is
pretty good, has an apache compatible license and a nice  development
environment in Eclipse and can make use of the OFBiz
delegator/dispatcher. It support several output formats such
spreadsheet, csv and PDF.








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